Blacksite's
Harvey Smith Asks, Why The Low Scores? on Wired.com (thanks Mike Martinez) offers
comments about BlackSite: Area 51 from Harvey Smith (thanks nin). The game's
producer says he would score the shooter sequel higher than its 69% GameRankings
average, saying some of the more subversive elements of the game's storyline
went unappreciated, but in a surprisingly frank assessment says he understands
why the game was not well-received. Harvey cites lack of polish as a factor as
the game jumped to final form shortly after reaching the alpha stage, and does
not shy away from blame, saying he is to be faulted as the game was the less
favored of the two projects he was overseeing during development. When asked why
he was publicly knocking his own project so soon after release the man also
known as Witchboy replied, "I believe in personal accountability."